There is a mysterious drawing power to the Cross of Jesus. He explained the pull of His death to bring all people toward Him. “When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.” Every person feels this. Some will deny it, but it's true. The soul that sins shall die; He took our “death sentence.” He was perfect, the Lamb of God, without sin or disobedience. The terrible punishment we deserve- He took. He swapped places with us- took our sins on Himself- those awful things you and I have thought and done. The Innocent One took the place of the guilty! In the Psalms Jesus said, “I delight to do thy will, O my God” (Psa 40:7).

God's will that Jesus delighted in was the redeeming of every human. Paying the sin price, the ransom, to bring us back, those “having no hope, without God in the world.” We are given hope because Jesus died for us. This amazing selfless act causes all people past and present to look up to His cross. Jesus is the only way to enter eternity safely. “Now in Christ Jesus you who were sometimes far off are made near by the blood of Christ.” All who are far away from God can come near because Jesus died on the Cross, God's magnet to draw all people!


Eph 2:12 “That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”